Iranian nuclear scientist ssassinated in Tehran

[cindy25]

breaking news

[dannno]

Was it Al-CIA-duh?

[newbitech]

breaking news

source...

[Zippyjuan]

Related to this story? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010487375_scientist12.html?syndication=rss

Nope- somebody else: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fgw-iran-bomb-scientist12-2009jan12,0,6934201.story


Iran says nuclear scientist killed in bomb blast
January 12, 2010 | 12:25 a.m.


Reporting from Beirut and Tehran - An Iranian man described by officials as a nuclear scientist and university professor was killed in a bomb blast this morning in Tehran, officials told state media.

Massoud Ali-Mohammadi died in an explosion set off near his home in the upscale district of Qeytarieh in the north of the capital at about 7:30 a.m. local time.

The website of Iran's state-controlled Press TV reported he was killed by a booby-trapped motorcycle. But the hard-line Fars news agency, close to the Revolutionary Guard, said a remote-controlled bomb was set in a trash bin outside his house.

Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dowlatabadi described Mohammadi as a nuclear scientist. Fars described him as a professor at Tehran University, though he is not among the scholars listed on the institution's website.

Jafari-Dowlatabadi told the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency that forensic experts were conducting post-mortem exams. No suspect has been arrested, he told the agency.

Iranian officials immediately suggested the nation's foreign rivals had a hand in his slaying.

State television described Ali-Mohammadi as a "committed and revolutionary university professor martyred in a terrorist operation by counterrevolutionary agents affiliated with the global arrogance" while Press TV described a "staunch supporter of the Islamic Revolution."

Arabic language Al Jazeera television cited unnamed Iranian sources as saying, "Israel is behind assassinating" Ali-Mohammadi.

Iran's top diplomat last month accused the United States -- and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday -- of kidnapping one of its nuclear scientists. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that Shahram Amiri, who worked for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, disappeared during a summer religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.

He said Tehran had evidence that the U.S. was involved in the disappearance.

Iran's nuclear program has alarmed the West and Israel, which accuse Tehran of using civilian atomic research program to mask an ultimate plan to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Several rounds of sanctions have failed to push Iranians into giving up sensitive aspects of their nuclear program, which they insist is entirely peaceful.


His homepage at the University of Tehran: http://physics.ut.ac.ir/~alimohmd/
Publications: http://physics.ut.ac.ir/~alimohmd/publics.htm

[devil21]

I guess Clinton wasn't kidding.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_us/us_clinton_iran_7


1-11-10
Clinton: Iran sanctions should target elite
HONOLULU – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration has concluded that the best way to pressure Iran to come clean on its nuclear ambitions is to impose sanctions aimed at the country's ruling elite.

"It is clear that there is a relatively small group of decision makers inside Iran," she told reporters traveling with her on the first leg of a nine-day trip across the Pacific. "They are in both political and commercial relationships, and if we can create a sanctions track that targets those who actually make the decisions, we think that is a smarter way to do sanctions. But all that is yet to be decided upon."

Clinton spoke as officials from the six nations trying to persuade Iran to prove its nuclear intentions are peaceful said senior diplomats from the group were preparing to meet possibly later this week to discuss the way ahead, including potential new sanctions.

Clinton mentioned that the meeting, of representatives of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France — plus Germany would meet at the end of the week in New York. She did not cite a specific day.

"They will be exploring the kind and degree of sanctions that we should be pursuing," she said.
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Sounds like they already decided the degree of sanctions.

[Pauls' Revere]

Wonder what the retaliation will be?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-nuclear-scientist-killed-one-205821846.html

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran in November was killed by a one-ton gun smuggled into Iran in pieces by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, according to a report by The Jewish Chronicle on Wednesday.

Citing intelligence sources, the British weekly said a team of more than 20 agents, including Israeli and Iranian nationals, carried out the ambush on scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh after eight months of surveillance.

Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the report, which was published on the website of the London-based newspaper.